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by erikaww 642 days ago
Kind of. Call it what it is. It’s extremely pervasive and has a massive impact on the culture, quality of life and economics in the US.

It is a shame because it would be a fixed problem if we held people accountable or fixed land use or designed infrastructure to be safer
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AlbertCory 642 days ago
No, they are "traffic accidents." You don't get to rename them so they sound like something else.
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erikaww 642 days ago
You completely missed the nuance that peer countries have up to half an order higher deaths per capita.

This is an easily solved problem. More on the nuance: humans are imperfect when driving, so design infrastructure around that.

What are you gaining out of this? Like do you also look aside when gun violence is brought up?

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AlbertCory 642 days ago
> What are you gaining out of this?

Stopping the deliberate debasement and pollution of our language. That's what I'm gaining. Or trying to.

Call it what it is ("traffic accidents"), and we can stop arguing. Other countries have fewer accidents? OK, that's worth talking about. I didn't "miss the nuance" because I'm not responding to that right here.

Or "bad road engineering" if that's what you want to talk about.

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underbiding 642 days ago
Jesus get a grip. "debasement" and "pollution".

Language is living. Get off your high horse. People are allowed to invent and use new words and terms. Language evolves with use, not by people like you holding on to dear life for every little thing.

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AlbertCory 642 days ago
> "debasement" and "pollution"

read https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

Inventing inflated words to make something old sound like a fresh crisis is indeed debasement and pollution. I guess you don't know or care what that is.

So don't tell me what to say. You can keep doing it and I can keep calling it out, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.

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